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Re: When do mentors go too far?
In all truth, I feel that my team has more of an edge on teams that have an engineer to completly build their robot because we don't think inside the box. You cannot be limited if you don't know what they are. This year the only things the students didn't do was weld the chassis and a base plate. We still managed to make it to the semi's. My team has absolutly zero engineers. The students are the engineers, the builders, and the soul of the team. At the Lone Star Regional I talked with a judge who had been with FIRST since the beginning and she said that the first year one team had a robot completly done by engineers. All it could do on the field was break-down the entire competition. I personally think that FIRST designs it's competitions to put everyone on as equal a footing as possible. So, to all the teams who have loads of engineers and picture perfect robots.... I say bring'em on. Victory comes to those who deserve it.
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Last edited by Argoth : 05-04-2005 at 23:23.
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